"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around ...

using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern hemisphere (HARPS-N) spectrograph, which is installed on ...

Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This "transiting method" was how Webb indirectly detected CO 2 in the atmosphere ...

SEE ALSO: Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time The sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, likely clobers any orbiting exoplanets with radiation ...

Despite many false starts and dead ends over all that time, astronomers announced the first discovery of exoplanets in 1992 ... he searched for stars that had high proper motion, meaning they ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system—using a technique known as "transit timing variation." In research ...

Exoplanets discovered by the transit method offer a unique additional benefit. By comparing high-resolution spectroscopic observations of the star and planet during a transit with observations of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a new milestone in exoplanet research by capturing images of exoplanets containing carbon dioxide in their atmospheres. This discovery, within the HR ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the minds of academics and dreamers alike. As far back as the 16th century, ...

This finding is based on the surprisingly high amount of solids these exoplanets accreted. All the materials accreted at the beginning of a planet's formation increase the metallicity of its ...